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Aug. 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2016, Thursday, Hour #3
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Buck in for rush today on the EIB.
Phone lines open 800-282882.
Love to take some calls later on in the hour.
But first, let's talk about substance.
One of the complaints that I hear, I hear it from just friends of mine.
I hear it from people who are in the media from the punditocry, some of whom are also friends of mine.
We're not talking about enough substance in this political season.
And I agree with that.
I agree with that.
But part of the problem is that we're not even able to reach common ground with the left on what constitutes substance we're talking about in the first place.
So we're not talking about a lot of substance, and even if we were trying, we don't agree on what what is a substantial political debate or a worthwhile political debate at this point in time to be having.
Where should we focus our energy and our attention?
We'll be talking about Obamacare.
We've got Aetna saying it might be leaving a whole bunch of states, and premiums are going to be skyrocketing next year.
And all kinds of the whole Obamacare House of Cards is starting to fall apart, and the only way they're going to keep together is just shovel more taxpayer dollars into the bottom of it.
But I digress.
I mean, that's just that's just like your health care, man.
I mean, maybe that's not such a big deal to you and your loved ones, your family, um, though I doubt it.
I feel like health care matters to everybody.
Not a lot of talk about that.
Uh I know Trump has said that he'll replace Obamacare or repeal it, replace it, uh, but not a lot of discussion over what's really happening right now.
Uh on the other on the other side of things, you've got the Democrats who are all in the identity politics of well, transgenderism.
And so we all have to focus on this now.
This has become an issue uh all the way from grade schools up into universities and the workplace.
Uh the federal government, uh, just uh what was it, a couple of months ago, I believe it was, has even gone as far, I mean the Obama administration has gone as far as to say that unless there are gender neutral guidelines put in place for schools uh and that there will be a respect for gender as a form of psychological identity instead of a biological reality.
They'll pull funds.
They'll take away the cash from your kids' school.
That was what the administration at least was threatening to do.
And you say to yourself, wait, President Obama, he doesn't have the power of the person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
The constitution, schmonstitution, who cares?
He doesn't care about that stuff.
They're just gonna pull the funds.
They'll figure it out later.
What are you gonna do?
Sue Obama, he's packed the courts already, except for the Supreme Court.
That will be what Hillary manages to do.
But the lower courts have already been packed by Obama, by the way.
B. T. Dub.
Uh he has transformed the political affiliation of the circuit courts, appeals courts.
So that's gonna be fun when we think that there'll be some checks and balances on a possible Hillary administration.
The courts are gonna be rubber stamping it all the way up to the top, and then if she gets a Supreme Court, we're gonna have to deal with that as well, everybody.
I don't know how limited government and liberty in whatever state you think it is right now, survives eight years of a his of a Hillary presidency, but I know it could be four, but let's assume it might be eight.
These are all important issues, but they'd rather talk, of course, about or rather Obamacare is an important issue and uh power of the purse and constitutionalism, but they want us all to focus on transgender bathroom rights.
It's become uh one of these celebrity projects as well, right?
They'll refuse to go to a state that says that you have to use the bat they'll refuse to perform, I should say, and and businesses also will engage in very selective boycotts here.
So I mean, don't go to North Carolina.
Go hang out in Saudi Arabia as much as you want, take whatever cash you need to from them, do business with them, that's cool, or you know, name name a country where there's all kinds of very real, very violent oppression against the LGBTQ community.
Uh but the grandstanding on this is grotesque, especially from the celebrities who seem to think that this is an opportunity to show everybody just how enlightened and politically active they are.
Ooh, any time now I see any celebrity or actor who's Also sort of and activist.
I mean, if they're a leftist, of course, I'm like, oh gosh, here we go.
Now we get lectured by somebody who doesn't know anything but expects people to pay attention to them anyway.
It's great stuff.
Target.
Target's a very big chain of stores, as you know.
They back in April upset some of their customers by saying that they would have a bathroom policy that allowed people to use the gender that they felt more or that they identified with, right?
That gender was not biological reality.
We're not at XX chromosome, XY chromosome.
No, no.
Use the bathroom that you see fit.
And to no one's surprise, it would seem, except perhaps the executive suite of Target, there was a bit of a backlash to this.
People were not particularly enthusiastic about this idea coming down from Target.
And so they backed off of it, and now they're spending, according to the Washington Times here, it's reported elsewhere as well.
20 million bucks on single stall bathrooms.
So not only does the left have a sort of a the cultural war aspect of this, and also really just the war on, you could even say it's kind of the war on science or scientific reality.
Male-female is a thing.
It is a thing.
It's a real, tangible reality of biology.
It is hashtag science.
And yet they ignore this because well, because of a few reasons.
One of one of them, I think, is that they just really like to find any way that they can, because they've won so many other cultural uh cultural wars and battles therein, uh, that they just want to find ways to make conservatives, and by that they really also mean believing and practicing uh Christians, um, religious Jews, they want to make them bend the knee on this stuff and say, yes, you're right.
Biology doesn't matter, gender is whatever you say it is, it's fluid, it's a spectrum.
And they want policies that reflect this, and not only that, but they want language that reflects this as well.
We've got the policy being instituted, of course, at Target, where they're now spending, and that's of course a private corporation, but probably trying to avoid lawsuits on either side.
They're like, oh, okay, okay, whatever we have to do, we'll do here.
I'll I'll spend the cash, I'll spend the cash.
We'll just we'll do single stalls and that'll be it.
And we'll spend millions of dollars on making sure that I mean, I I don't know how many of Target's customers are uh transgendered and feel the need to use the a different bathroom than their gender in the first place, right?
You maybe, maybe you're transgendered, but still would use the original gender I I don't know.
I'm actually not all that familiar with the uh the ins and the ins and outs of that.
But um my sense of it is that this is probably a pretty small problem in terms of the numbers.
And yet it's become an issue of national policy.
The White House is behind it.
You can say to me, Buck, who cares?
What's why are we and I say to you, yeah, I know, but this is what matters to the left.
And go back and well, I mean, this would bore you to tears, so I can't actually advocate doing this.
But you know, you go back and you listen to some of the Democrat debates, and you're you get a sense of what country are they living in?
The biggest we need to the biggest fights, the biggest concerns we have are global, uh not global warming climate change, or is it climate disruption?
I don't know, they keep changing, they keep disrupting it.
Uh or uh transgender rights or um equal pay for women, which has been debunked by economists so many times, but they keep saying it and saying it and saying it.
Fifteen dollar minimum wage, despite all the research that's been done on that issue to show that increasing the minimum wage of $15 would would not actually have a particularly profound impact on helping lower income families.
It would help some other families.
There'll be some winners and losers, but if you think having a $15 minimum wage isn't also going to mean that there are hours reduced and there's greater unemployment, well, take it up with the economists who crunch the numbers.
Back to single stall bathrooms and target.
See, that they they want us, we have to talk about this stuff because they make it an issue of policy.
And the left, it it feels like, as I said, it's not even that we disagree about how to about how to handle certain issues.
We disagree about what issues are particularly important in a lot of cases.
This is something that the left has made important in the sense that we have to deal with it now.
The White House is pushing this, and it's an issue of federal policy.
So Target's spending 20 million bucks.
There are economic consequences to their lunacy and their pandering to the sort of progressive insanity that's upon us now.
And there are consequences well beyond that as well.
In North Carolina now, teachers are being told by uh teachers in Charlotte, North Carolina have been advised.
This was on Fox News, um, to stop calling children boys and girls.
They don't they don't want to confuse the kids about whether they're a boy or a girl.
Um this is i in any other era where we hadn't had eight years of progressive rule and the the media uh feeling like they're they're running out of social issues to sort of just you know jam down the throats of the American people.
They're they're running out of ways to uh antagonize and ostracize uh Christians and and Judeo-Christian culture in this country.
I mean, they're running out, so now they've got to find crazier and crazier things.
And so now in North Carolina they have a special teaching tool as well.
They have a gender unicorn to explain gender identity to the kids.
It's a purple unicorn meant to sort of let them know that boys and girls are not, you know, there's a it's not clear there's such a thing as boys and girls.
There's sort of this whole spectrum.
They're teaching this to kids.
These little kids.
That's why that's why they're using uh a purple unicorn here, right?
This is this is real, everybody.
This is what's happening right now.
And keep in mind that it'd be one thing if this was just a little bit of craziness here, a little bit of craziness there, but overall.
No, this is a reflection of White House policy.
This is what the White House wants with the federal government, which controls the Department of Education.
This is what they're trying to force on your kids.
Brainwashing them into thinking.
I mean, how can you have an how can you have any education in science when you start out telling kids that, well, there's not really boys and girls, and let's not use those words, and those words could be hurtful because they're exclusionary.
It's like, well, but I also don't understand.
It falls down, it collapses into self-contradiction.
If there's no boys and no girls, well, how can one identify as one and identify as the other because it doesn't really that distinction ceases to exist at a certain point if it's just all a mindset, and then people say, oh, well, it's there's gender.
And uh a fantastic point from Mr. Snarl, if there's no boys and no girls, what's this whole equal pay thing about?
Right?
I d that that seems oh, you mean there are distinctions.
People can tell the difference.
There are distinctions between boys and girls.
Who knew?
It's not even just at the grade school level where they are propagandizing your kids now in North Carolina.
I'm sure this is happening elsewhere as well, with a purple unicorn to explain that gender's a spectrum.
Gender's just an idea, it's a feeling.
This is craziness.
This is from the the college fix uh website I'm not familiar with, but I see this.
But I believe it because of what's going on.
I mean, I believe the story because this is happening at universities all over the place.
Princeton is trying to get use of get rid of using the word man in any official documents or anything.
They want generic terms and expressions, they want human beings, individuals, or people, no more men.
They are a racing man.
It's not, you know, Adam and Eve, it's just two humanoid life forms.
I I don't know what to say.
And the administration's on board for this.
And they think we're the anti-science people.
Climate change is hyperbole.
Okay, let's go into a break.
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Much more coming.
Buck Sexton here in For Rush Limbaugh today.
Very much enjoying my time at the EIB Mike.
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How much coverage have you seen about the floods in Louisiana, by the way?
Speaking of the media and its agendas and everything else, do you see a lot?
Uh usually, this is the kind of thing, and and this is it's just the truth that any natural disaster or any time that there's a lot of footage they can show of of disaster and and people in in despair, the media shows a lot of that.
But you're definitely not seeing much coverage of this.
I I certainly haven't seen much coverage of it.
It's not a topic of a lot of conversation.
And of course, there's the uh the side of this about how well President Obama's on vacation and hasn't stopped his vacation for this.
He did stop the vacation to go on the stump for Hillary at one point, but hasn't decided that he's going to uh keep in mind, you know, for for you or for me, if you know you live across the country, you want to go down and help, it's you're it's expensive, it's an ordeal, you gotta get on a plane.
If the president wants to go down there, Air Force One's Air Force One is right there, he hops on, can do whatever he wants, go down, make sure everything's going as well as it can with the relief efforts, and then he can come back.
It's not hard.
It's not asking a lot for the president to do that.
And you could say, well, Bachy's on vacation.
Well, you know, I I do recall, and and I know that that people would say, well, look at the the death toll in Hurricane Katrina much higher than the death toll here.
Okay, I understand that.
I understand that you know, not all natural uh disasters are the same in terms of the amount of damage and the the scope and the loss of life.
I uh that's all fair points.
But President Bush was annihilated by the press over his uh lack of or over his response to the whole thing and over his sort of lack of involvement, and there was that photo that I believe was supposed to be him showing concern flying by Air Force One, and of course it turned into something else the way the pr uh the press depicted it.
It was um him being uh dis you know distanced from the whole thing and and he didn't much care.
That was the way that they talked about it.
It's very damaging to the Bush presidency.
I mean, I I don't think the Bush presidency ever really recovered from a reputational standpoint as a result of what happened with Katrina.
Right now in Louisiana, you have a death toll of thirteen.
This is on uh on the A ABC News site.
This is their count.
Seventy thousand people have uh registered for emergency uh have registered for uh assistance.
At least forty thousand f uh homes have been hit by this this f this flooding.
You've got tens of thousands of people who are homeless who are displaced, and this all this all continues to be a very difficult, very destructive and dangerous situation.
And media's not really seeming to give a whole lot of what about it.
Much more important to them to find the latest gaffe, you know.
Let's find something that Trump said in a foreign policy speech that was either inarticulate or that offends our delicate media sensibilities.
Um there's also, of course, I think the aspect of this that where are we now?
We're at uh August 18th.
Much of the media could be found on at least a lot of important people, the media, a lot of the big the big media figures who just speak the truth.
Uh they're out on the Vineyard, Nantucket, maybe out east, as they say here in New York City, which is a code word for the Hamptons, because now you don't say Hampens anymore.
A lot of the media's out there probably at this point taking uh taking a little bit of time off, and as you know, the news cycle is a construct, it's a narrative that's put together by people who work in the media, and so that may have some impact on what's getting covered and what doesn't, but it's just Trump Trump Trump all the time.
And I think Jay Johnson, the latest I see here is that Jay Johnson's gonna be going down, Homeland Security Secretary to visit Louisiana.
Okay.
So they're sending somebody from the administration, they're making uh some effort here.
But again, not a lot of uh not a lot of attention paid to this.
No one's seeming to criticize the administration's lack of a response.
And then, of course, there's that pesky question about the optics of a president being on vacation in Martha's Vineyard while there's a natural disaster going on that's affecting tens of thousands of people, perhaps up to a hundred thousand people.
And what I mean affecting, and people have lost their homes.
People have people have nowhere to go.
Um you would think that President Obama, who will no longer have the very weighty responsibilities of being the commander in chief uh come January.
You'd think that, you know, maybe he could make an exception for this one.
I feel like other presidents maybe will get a little more criticism for this one.
I'm just putting it out there.
I feel like it's possible that's the case.
Maybe they're giving him a pass on this.
Or maybe it's just they'd rather talk about how Trump is the worst and if people are suffering in Louisiana, that's secondary to Trump for them.
All right, everybody, Buck is back in for Rush on the EIB today.
Uh we are joined now by Ron Goudot.
He's calling us from Louisiana where he is helping out with the Cajun Navy.
Ron, appreciate you giving us a ring.
Hey, Buck, thanks for having me on.
So tell everybody listening, what is the Cajun Navy?
And what are you up to to help folks down in Louisiana?
Man, the Cajun Navy is grassroots Louisiana citizens helping neighbor to neighbor, and that's just what we're doing.
We're going out and rescuing people out of houses.
That's what we've been doing the last three days is pulling people out of houses, bringing water to pregnant women stranded out in the middle of nowhere, pulling cats off of roofs.
Um we've been working with um local authorities to get that accomplished.
And and give sense uh g give folks a sense of of what uh how bad is it.
I think people hear flooding and they don't really necessarily visualize how grave, how serious the situation is.
And what kind of things are you seeing?
I mean how how much water are people getting in their houses?
You're saying people are people are trapped, pregnant women can't pregn women can't get food.
I mean, give give us some sense of of what you're seeing out there.
Yeah, if you open up a map and look at Baton Rouge and you look north about an hour, the the Mississippi State lines right there, a storm landed on that area of the state and stayed there for two days.
Now in Baton Rouge and the Gulf Coast, it rains every day for about three o'clock, we can count on it's gonna rain.
And so the ground's already saturated all summer.
Well, it it rained hard for two days.
This storm would not move.
And it created a huge ground amount of water that had nowhere to go but south.
And what it's done, Buck, is created a s it created a carved a swath of uh destruction as it headed south.
I don't know how wide it is.
It must be ten to fifteen miles wide.
And it headed south.
It's just now hitting um areas in the swamps in the kind of the southeast portion of the state, kind of um east of New Orleans is where it's ended up.
But take and draw a line from that, you know, that corner of Mississippi, just right above Baton Rouge, all the way down to New Orleans, and it went right through that area at least ten, maybe fifteen miles wide is what I think I I would guess.
And are are the floodwaters still very high?
I mean, have things started to recede?
Uh are are you able to get close you know, is it easier to get to people now?
What's uh what's the status of the relief effort?
There's still flood waters in a lot of places.
Um, you would hear, well, the fly you know, you hear on the news from you know, the the floodwater's gone down in in Denham Springs.
Well, all that means is it went up to the city south of it.
And so, you know, it goes down, but it doesn't mean it's going away.
It's just moving south.
And there's still a lot of places that are inaccessible.
Um most of the most of it has gone down and places are the majority of places are accessible and people are are moving into cleanup mode, moving into distribution mode, and that's actually one of the things we're doing today.
We're kind of figuring out how to retool what we've been doing with boaters and turning it into a distribution network.
I have to tell the story of the boaters though.
Um these guys showed up um and they started just putting their boats in the water right at right away Sunday, and then Monday we started hitting roadblocks.
You know, authorities really took control and it was more difficult to get in Monday, and Monday was really kind of an unsuccessful day for the Cajun Navy.
We didn't but we learned from it.
Monday night we regrouped and we said, how do we get to these people?
Well, we realized we needed to go through the authorities, and so we basically went to mu Tuesday morning, we said go to the staging area, go and make a friend with a deputy, because what the deputy what they wanted us to do was have a deputy in the boat with us.
Go make a friend with a deputy and go and get some people, and it was a Tuesday.
We had probably seventy-five boats that went and and had success rescuing people out of houses, off of land, getting cats, bringing food.
Tuesday was where the Cajun where the Cajun Navy was born basically on Tuesday.
I mean anything that floats it can help people, right?
It was a learning process.
I mean, yeah, people definitely did the smaller things, but we're talking de you know, Louisiana is a very um uh sports sportsman's paradise.
That's our own.
But uh everybody with anything that floats is helping out, I assume.
We needed specific types of boats.
We learned that on we that was one of the things we were having problems with Monday.
We said, well, we can't have V-hole boats.
You have to have a flat bottom bolt boat.
The shallower the boat goes into the water the better, because you know you'll you'll push that boat through the water for a mile, and then there's you gotta you gotta pick up the boat and portage it for a mile.
And that was happening.
And so that the the shallower the boat the better.
We learned that, and we did we wouldn't let any boaters go into the water or join Cajun Navy unless they had a flat bottom boat.
That's just that was just an example of the things we learned that made us more successful on Tuesday.
Um local authorities are uh are obviously all over this and and they're they're ha you're working with them to try to be as effective as possible.
Is is there a a federal is there much of a federal response?
Are you seeing the the federal government step in in a meaningful way?
To be honest with you, I have not paid attention.
I haven't watched TV in three days.
I haven't really focused on that.
I don't think any of us have.
Um look, I've had eight hours of sleep literally in the last three days.
My my my main dispatcher, um, and I'll talk about our system, but our main dispatcher hasn't slept since yesterday morning at 5 p.m.
I was just on a conference call with her.
Um we're not you we have we're not we're not funded, we don't want money, we're not we're not any kind of organization.
We are just citizens that are making things happen, and we've used technology to do it.
We're using an app to communicate with boaters out in the water.
We basically have a C a C B system that every boater, every Cajun Navy boater has, um, and we have a GPS system that we know where they are, so we can see them from a dispatch perspective, and the dispatchers are are connecting them with um people are posting on Facebook that they need this done.
They need you know, but my grandma is stranded and we need to get her, you know, we need to get her some water.
She doesn't want to leave.
So would you bring her a box of water?
Well, that's what's happening.
And so somebody will get it off of Facebook.
We vet it.
No, the first thing we do is we make sure that they went through the proper channels.
We're we're really getting the ones that kind of fall through the cracks, the ones that maybe get forgotten or they're you know, they just can't get in touch with authorities.
So we make sure they went through the proper channels first, and then we go after them.
They get vetted, they get dispatched, and then the dispatch sends it to the to the um to the boat guy directly through our our C B network, and they go get them and the whole time.
We have a CB chatter going on, it's been nonstop.
The CB chatter has been nonstop since we started using it on Sunday.
Well, uh look, it's incredible.
It's it's great to hear that uh we've got citizens who are just helping out their neighbors and and this this whole process that you're undergoing to to bring people aid and and under very difficult circumstances.
Uh you're speaking to a lot of people across the country right now who are listening who might not be able to be there with uh with a boat, flat bottom or otherwise, but would like to help.
Uh what can they do?
Is there a site they can go to?
Is there anything they can do at all that to help you help you all down in your uh in your efforts?
You know, the best we are grassroots citizens, the very best thing they can do is go through your established trusted organizations um to donate um and send supplies.
If you live in the area and you want to help, by all means, you know, do what you have to do to bring stuff to the local distribution centers yourself.
Um but look, we that's what we're kind of switching into.
We're we're the rescue has really fallen off.
We're retooling to become uh people are people are messaging us on Facebook on our Facebook group.
So what's your Facebook is is Cajun Navy on a Facebook page?
This is what I'm how can we find it?
Cajun Navy.
The group is the Cajun Navy on Facebook.
That's right, sir.
And they are messaging us.
I have a truckload of uh water.
We had two uh uh we had two truckloads of water and it's on the road, it's on its way.
We don't even know where it's going.
We're not even tooled to do that.
So we're figuring out, okay, where are we gonna send us water?
Well, we're we're retooling now to get it to become a distribution network.
We're putting in the DC centers, we have a G a Google map, we're pinning them, and we're getting all the trucks to start using the same GPS technology we were using on the with the boats.
And we're we're getting the deep them to the DC centers, and the DC centers are handling the actual distribution out into the the community.
So we're not involved in that.
We're just gonna help get those things that people are sharing with us on Facebook, and they want to contribute to distribution centers and letting the distribution centers get them into their neighborhood.
We have about seven identified across the region, and it isn't just Baton Rouge guys.
This is kind of one of the things.
Lafayette is also been hit and areas kind of um west of Lafayette.
I'm from Lafayette originally, and Baton Rouge a lot of times gets all the attention.
And the fact is this is this is a wide storm that affected areas from Jennings and Lake Charles all across South Louisiana all the way across over to Baton Rouge.
So the whole southern portion of the state is actually being affected.
That storm stayed above Lafayette for quite a while as well.
All right.
Ron Goudot of the Cajun Navy, everybody listening who's in the area or wants to help out, go check out the Cajun Navy's Facebook page.
Ron, great work you're doing.
Really appreciate you calling to tell us about it.
Hey, Buck, thank you for having me on.
I really appreciate it.
Absolutely, sir.
All right, we'll go into a break.
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Buck here in for Rush, Buck Sexton, that is.
Robert in Columbus, Ohio.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
You are speaking to Buck.
Yay, thanks, Buck, for taking my call.
Thank you.
Hey, I'm I'm not a Democrat or a Republican.
I'm just an independent out here in the cheap seats of society.
And it it seems to me that the Republican Party is in shreds, and Trump's campaign appears to be circling the drain.
I don't think he'll win Ohio.
He has no ground game here, and Governor Case hates his gut.
And we all know what happens to Republicans when they lose Ohio, but I wanted to ask you how much effect do you think Trump will have on the rest of the ticket?
Uh Hillary, I think all she needs to do is keep a low profile, shut her mouth, and Trump will take care of the rest.
But how what effect uh do you think Trump will have on the rest of the ticket?
And what do you think the Republican Party will look like a year from now?
You know, Robert, I I can only offer you my predictions with the caveat that uh I don't think anybody can predict this.
So with that, so now I'm like in the fr in the totally free and clear here to say whatever I want, because I don't think anybody knows.
I think anybody who says they know is just making it up.
But I'll give you my assessment, right?
My analysis, my my sense of of where all of this is going.
I mean, look, it's if for Trump to win at this point, it's gonna have to be another time, and it's happened many times so far in the last twelve months when all the conventional wisdom is wrong and somehow Trump is right, and the the polls aren't reflective of sentiment, or maybe there's a huge change that happens in the debates, or i there would have to be an event or something that we can't necessarily foresee right now that changes the trajectory of this whole thing.
I don't know if that's gonna happen.
I I i it it looks bad right now, but keep in mind you never want to do what your enemy wants you to do.
And right now, the leftist media, uh the the the drive-by's, um, they firmly want that they're they're absolutely dedicated to the idea of the it's already over, the election's over, there's nothing it's it's done, right?
Republicans are fleeing, Trump's campaigns in disarray and everything else.
So I don't like to give them what they want as a general rule.
If you're asking me if it looks like the campaign doesn't have enough of a ground game and they're not spending money where they shouldn't, yeah.
Yeah, I'd say that that all looks that all looks to be the case.
Um but then again, people have been saying that about Trump all along, and I mean what worked in the primary probably won't work in the general but we won't know until election day.
So that's kind of a lot of talking without much of an answer, but that's because I don't think anybody has a real answer.
And then on the issue of what the Republican Party looks like, it obviously depends uh tremendously on what happens with with Trump.
I mean if Trump wins, it feels like it's Trump's party and we're all living in it.
You know what I mean?
If or th the Republican Party at least.
Uh if Trump loses, there'll be very that's that to me is um a little bit more up in the air because there'll be an effort, I think, to create a sort of a a there'll be media entities that try to continue the Trump brand and the Trump version of Republican politics and carry that torch going forward, I think.
I do believe there will be a backlash from a lot of conservative media against other people in the media on the on the right now, this is for backing Trump and abandoning conservative principles and all the you know essentially the the never Trump crew is not gonna forget any time soon who the early Trump backers were and and who was willing to sort.
So that's it's gonna be a mess.
That much I I'm confident about.
It will be a mess.
Yes, and and as Mr. Snurley has pointed out, the never Trumpers will also not be forgotten.
In fact, I think the Trump supporters already have it set up so that if Trump loses, and we all know this, and Trump's already been insinuating this himself.
Trump loses, the narrative won't be that he was always a candidate who was weak, who wasn't conservative, who was never gonna pull this off.
The narrative will be that the never Trumpers uh abandoned him and that essentially the Republican establishment would rather Hillary win than have Trump as a pseudo-Republican in the White House.
Um look, I I know some conservatives who are out there saying they they will they'll vote Hillary over Trump.
I don't I can sit here and say, all right, I get the I get I'm not gonna vote, period, or I'm gonna vote I mean maybe third party, but I don't know, really.
Uh I can get all that though.
But I'm a conservative, like the people that are telling me I'm a conservative, and therefore I'm gonna vote for Hillary because I think that's better.
That to me is just uh that is unfathomable.
I I can't understand that.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
Don't vote for Trump if you're a conservative because he doesn't you, you know, no one can force you to do anything, and that's your own thing.
But to vote for Hillary because you're a conservative, for me that's that's uh jumping the shark like the Fonz.
That's just crazy.
Um that's how I feel about that.
And that's what I have to say on that issue right now.
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Roger in Omaha, what's up, buddy?
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
My comment is for the lady earlier that is voting for Hillary, just because she's a woman.
Mm-hmm.
She doesn't take into consideration that she's a liar, a cheat, and everything else, but it's just the fact that she's a woman is the reason she's voting for her.
Does that make sense?
I mean, you're saying that you think that Hillary's a bad, a bad candidate and kind of a bad person, and she shouldn't just vote for her because she's a woman.
I think I said the same thing, yeah.
Yeah.
And and so it's kind of one of those that so what you know.
So instead of voting on somebody that might be able to help our country get better, somebody that's a woman is gonna be better because she's a woman.
Yeah, no, I don't I don't like I don't like voting based on uh identity politics of any kind, but people are gonna, you know, do as they're gonna do with Hillary, it's uh you know, she would be the first woman president, so it's kind of defeats the whole purpose of the you know things that we were talking about after that about you know there is no gender.
We're all Yeah, it's it if if gender is a state of mind, the first woman president should be a much less exciting thing to people than it is, but it's not a state of mind.
So we all kind of deep down know that, or just know that because it's true.
Roger, thanks for calling from Omaha.
Good to talk to you.
Yeah, look, by the way, I didn't really get on this, but the swimmers uh apparently lied about their whole situation, according to the police in Brazil right now, we're being told that they were at a gas station, they broke a door.
Ryan Lochdi was one of the great swimmers.
Uh they broke a door, and then they had to pay for it, and they that they weren't robbed.
I feel like the Brazilians are just very upset.
That's it's really bad PR when a gold medal swimmer during the Olympics gets robbed in your country.
So I feel like the Brazilians really do want to clear this one up.
And looks like our swimmers weren't exactly up front with what happened.
Very naughty swimmers.
These swimmers are being saucy.
Uh, so there's that.
Um, I think unfortunately, that's the time I have.
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